HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources

TIME & DATE:  3:00PM or upon final adjourn./recess
             Wednesday, March 28, 2001

PLACE: E2.014, Capitol Extension

CHAIR: Rep. David Counts

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The committee will meet in a public hearing to consider the following:

HB 622            Lewis, Ron / et al.
Relating to financing rural water projects in the State of Texas.

HB 1771            Burnam
Relating to the election and terms of office of the board of
directors of the Tarrant County Water Control and Improvement
District No. 1.

HB 2571            McReynolds
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Angelina County Water Control and
Improvement District No. 4; authorizing the imposition of taxes and
the issuance of bonds and granting the power of eminent domain;
providing a civil penalty.

HB 2572            McReynolds / et al.
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operations, and financing of the Pineywoods Groundwater
Conservation District.

HB 2687            Junell
Relating to the program for the regulation and remediation of
underground and aboveground storage tanks.

HB 2690            Walker
Relating to enforcement measures available to groundwater
conservation districts.

HB 2776            Wise / et al.
Relating to the establishment of a colonia self-help program.

HB 2959            Williams
Relating to the board of supervisors and the powers of the
Brookshire-Katy Drainage District; providing a civil penalty.

HB 2994            Lewis, Ron
Relating to the authority of districts to enter into contracts to
pay taxes.

HB 3037            Walker
Relating to the regulation of spacing and production of wells by
groundwater conservation districts.

HB 3096            Counts
Relating to the development of a water supply reservoir project at
a site known as the Post Reservoir site in Garza County, Texas.

HB 3159            Bonnen
Relating to the compensation and per diem of the commissioners of
Brazoria Drainage District Number 4.

HB 3188            Puente
Relating to the plugging of abandoned or deteriorated water wells.

HB 3228            Shields
Relating to containment systems required for certain underground
storage tanks.

HB 3243            Gallego
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Kinney County Groundwater
Conservation District; granting the power of eminent domain and
conditionally granting authority to levy property taxes.

HB 3543            Hilderbran
Relating to the name, elections, duties, powers, operation, and
financing of the Headwaters Underground Water Conservation
District.

HB 3544            Hilderbran
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the Cow
Creek Groundwater Conservation District.

HB 3625            Green
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Hays Trinity Groundwater Conservation District.

HB 3626            Hardcastle
Relating to the ratification of the creation of and to the
administration, powers, duties, operation, and financing of the
Tri-County Groundwater Conservation District.

HB 3640            Uher
Relating to the creation, administration, powers, duties,
operation, and financing of the Coastal Plains Groundwater
Conservation District and the authorization of the district to
impose an ad valorem tax.

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